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The Benefits of Wisdom
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Tune your ears to wisdom,
and concentrate on understanding.
and concentrate on understanding.
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding.
and ask for understanding.
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Search for them as you would for silver;
seek them like hidden treasures.
seek them like hidden treasures.
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Then you will understand what it means to fear the LORD,
and you will gain knowledge of God.
and you will gain knowledge of God.
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
For the LORD grants wisdom!
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
He grants a treasure of common sense to the honest.
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
He guards the paths of the just
and protects those who are faithful to him.
and protects those who are faithful to him.
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair,
and you will find the right way to go.
and you will find the right way to go.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
For wisdom will enter your heart,
and knowledge will fill you with joy.
and knowledge will fill you with joy.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Wise choices will watch over you.
Understanding will keep you safe.
Understanding will keep you safe.
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Wisdom will save you from evil people,
from those whose words are twisted.
from those whose words are twisted.
To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
These men turn from the right way
to walk down dark paths.
to walk down dark paths.
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
They take pleasure in doing wrong,
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Their actions are crooked,
and their ways are wrong.
and their ways are wrong.
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman,
from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
from the seductive words of the promiscuous woman.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
She has abandoned her husband
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
and ignores the covenant she made before God.
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
The man who visits her is doomed.
He will never reach the paths of life.
He will never reach the paths of life.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
So follow the steps of the good,
and stay on the paths of the righteous.
and stay on the paths of the righteous.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
For only the godly will live in the land,
and those with integrity will remain in it.
and those with integrity will remain in it.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.